MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell and his company filed suit against the country and officials Tuesday, demanding that his cell phone be returned after the FBI confiscated it last week.
FBI agents’ phone search and seizure violated Lindell’s constitutional rights, urging the Minnesota U.S. District Court to order that his device and any data accessed from its cell service provider be given back to him, according to the lawsuit.
It called for barring federal authorities from accessing or releasing the phone’s information and looped in Alan Dershowitz as counsel for Lindell.
According to Lindell, at least four FBI agents approached him after he ordered food at a Hardee’s drive-thru in Mankato.
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“I said, ‘Does this have anything to do with January 6th?'” Lindell said, referring to investigations led by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Washington, D.C. into the origins of the Capitol riot. “They said ‘no.'”
Lindell said Wednesday that the FBI agents also asked him about various flights he’s taken. Lindell said he told them he travels the country meeting with elected officials.
“The attorney generals I met with are mostly Republican ones when I’m trying to get evidence before Supreme Court,” Lindell told WCCO.
Agents served Lindell the phone’s warrant at a Minnesota Hardee’s drive-thru last Tuesday morning and probed him about matters related to Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters, his associate Douglas Frank, Dominion Voting Systems, and other subjects, the lawsuit said.
Peters currently faces state charges in connection with a scheme allegedly permitting unauthorized access to voting machines, according to CNN.
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Warrant documents featured on his show “The Lindell Report” last Tuesday evening indicated investigators looked for evidence of people including Lindell, Frank, and Peters allegedly running afoul of federal anti-identity theft and intentional protected computer damage laws, The Washington Post reported.
Frank has contended he found secret algorithms used to rig the 2020 election and claimed Trump won.
FBI personnel reportedly seized Frank’s phone at an airport Thursday.
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